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Accomplishing the Impossible: What God Does, What We Can Do

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Russell M. Nelson
Russell M. Nelson

Russell M. Nelson is a renowned American surgeon, born on September 9, 1924. He has made significant contributions to the field of medicine, particularly in cardiac surgery. Dr. Nelson has performed thousands of heart surgeries throughout his career and is known for his innovative techniques in the field. more

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“Good and evil are the cause and effect of each other. When you try to become good, you also become evil because the seeds of evil are concealed in all goodness just like the code of ‘death’ is already written in all ‘births’. Those who are considered to be evil by some are also viewed as good by others. The terrorist of one society is the martyr of another.”

“There is indeed no horror, no wickedness, no evil - no cruelty, no torture, no holocaust in the whole history of the world - that is not, under the sovereignty of grace, already reconciled in Jesus. And there is no perpetrator of any horror, wickedness, evil, et cetera (up to and including Hitler and your dreadful brother-in-law) who is not, in Jesus, forgiven. That is the Gospel, the Good News, without which we are all obviously dead ducks. But it is also, from where we sit, the most outrageous piece of bad news the world has ever heard because it says quite clearly that, on the basis of anything we can know or feel about the goodness of creation, God is bad.”